Both
broad streams of traditionalist responses to the contemporary climate of oppression — those who say our troubles are an extension of liberal
principles and those who say they are a betrayal of those
principles — tend to jump too quickly from theory to practice, and so to treat the lived experience of our society as a kind of working out of
philosophical premises.
By systematic we mean not that some traditional set of problems has been covered, but rather that the
philosophical product is the deliberate and methodic interrelation of its constituents, viz., its concepts, categories, and
principles in a structure which supports
broad inferences and extensions or applications of the conceptual scheme.